Chapter 12: Hunting
Time flies, and this year's winter in Panyun Village seems to have come exceptionally early. As soon as we enter the early winter, the snowflakes are already falling.
The matter of making sweet potato flour has long been stopped, the road is slippery in snowy days, and Xin Ping does not let the mother and daughter of the Lin family come to work in the snow. Jiao Niang helped the Lin family's mother and daughter also hoard a lot of winter food and firewood to ensure that they would not freeze and starve.
Jiao Niang wore an old cotton jacket and carried goat's milk from the kitchen and trotted into the back room. As soon as I entered the back room, it was warm, and Jiao Niang asked Xin Ping to buy carbon early, and it was smokeless and tasteless silver wire carbon, which was placed in the back room.
Xiao Xin'an is also in good spirits, and he had a lot of fun with Xinping in the back room. I saw that the lady brought the milk. hurriedly sat in his brother's arms obediently, waiting for Jiao Niang to feed him.
Jiao Niang was feeding her younger brother and talking to Xin Ping. Xin Ping didn't have such a good mood as Jiao Niang. The weather is so unusual this winter that I'm afraid it will be snowy.
He is not afraid that he will have no food, no firewood, and enough things to hoard, but he is afraid that his family will become the target of other people's eyes and even robbery. After all, the three of them are like children standing in the downtown area with gold ingots.
The wind was cold. Ma Zhu's family nested in a leaky room, shivering from the cold.
"Mother. It's going to be cold. Ma Qin shuddered and pulled the quilt onto his body. This quilt has been covered for many years, and it is not warm at all in winter.
Ma Zhushi pulled Ma Qin's quilt away and fell to the ground. Ma Qin shivered from the cold, quickly fished the quilt back and scolded: "What are you crazy about!" ”
"What am I crazy about? I married into your family, and I have been moldy for eighteen lifetimes! You useless thing. A family of three is going to freeze to death here. You're still sleeping! I'll let you sleep! Ma Zhushi went crazy and pounced on Ma Qin.
"You dare to beat Lao Tzu as a woman?" Ma Qin was not to be outdone, and fought against Ma Zhu.
"Forget it if you kill it, you don't have the ability to make money, and you still toss blindly every day." Ma Fu sniffed, rolled over with a mutter, and pulled the quilt tight.
The snowflakes were flying, and Lin Yushi was walking with difficulty in the wind and snow, and his mouth was still chattering: "Don't be afraid, Feng, my mother is coming to you." Mother will take you home. ”
Lin Hongyan hurried to Lin Yu's side with a rope and tied Lin Yu's with a rope: "This dead mother-in-law, running so coldly. If it weren't for the fear that my daughter would trouble me, I wouldn't care about you. ”
Most of the people in the village have cats at home to keep warm, and the more leisurely family gets together to play mahjong. Lizheng's home does not have this leisure.
Today, several groups of people have come to cry about poverty. Li Zheng sighed, in previous years, a few old, weak, sick and disabled people in the village, every household had a little grain and firewood.
This year, the weather was abnormal, and much grain was confiscated from the previous autumn harvest. Everything that can be eaten in Panlong Mountain has been scourged by the villagers, and even a hare can no longer be seen. If a few people freeze to death this year, then I am afraid that he will not be able to keep his position next year!
Lin Qi brought her grandfather a cup of hot tea, and she knew what her grandfather was bothering about. A group of ignorant villagers, as long as there is a little thing, they know to find Lizheng.
"Grandpa, I think it's better to organize some young and strong people to go hunting in the mountains. It's not a way to go on like this, and when the snow really closes the mountain, you can't hunt if you want to. Lin Qi stuffed the hot tea into his grandfather's mobile phone and rubbed his shoulders distressedly.
Li Zheng looked at his granddaughter with satisfaction: "Xiaoqi! Among the grandpa's grandchildren, you are the one who likes you the most. Not only because you are smart, but also because you have filial piety and know that you feel sorry for your grandfather. ”
Lin Qi's elder brother Lin Jie couldn't help pouting when he heard the conversation between his grandfather and grandson: "Sycophant." Angry Li Zheng glared at him fiercely. Lin Jie's neck shrunk and he ran to the outhouse.
Li Zheng thought about it again and again, but still adopted Lin Qi's words, and sent people to inform them from door to door: "Anyone who has young people in the family will be selected to participate in hunting activities tomorrow." The prey comes back and is divided equally. ”
When Jiao Niang heard the news, her whole face began to darken. The plot from the original book is here! Although his family has enough food to stockpile, every family that Li Zheng has notified is going to be young and middle-aged. Blatantly disobeying is tantamount to going against the entire Panyun Village.
How can Xin Ping be saved from this disaster?
Not to mention the Xin family, the Ma family received the news, and the Ma Zhu family stopped fighting with his wife. ran to Lizheng's house, cried, made trouble, and hanged herself, saying that her Ma Fu, the only seedling, must not be in danger.
Ma Zhu's was directly blasted out by Li Zheng. Li Zheng pointed at her and said, "Either let Ma Fu go, or your whole family will starve to death, and the village will not lend you food!" When Ma Zhushi heard this, he had to bow his head and wipe away from his tears.
The night before going into the mountains to hunt, Jiao Niang specially cooked a table of good dishes and poured a few glasses of wine for Xin Ping, saying that it was to strengthen Xin Ping's courage. Xin Ping did not doubt that he had him, and drank a few glasses.
The next day, Xin Ping woke up to the sound of Xin An's cries. He found his brother sleeping next to him, crying with hunger. Xin Ping ran to the kitchen and didn't find Jiao Niang, but there was a bowl of lean porridge on the kitchen stove.
Xin Ping couldn't care about anything else, and first fed Xin An and changed his diaper. Only then did he wrap Xin An tightly and hold it in his hands to find Jiao Niang everywhere.
Jiao Niang didn't find it, and Xin Ping found that the things he was going to hunt in the mountains were gone. Only then did he realize that Jiao Niang was hunting for herself!
Xin Ping knew that it was dangerous to go deep into the mountains to hunt in winter. He was in a hurry, and he wanted to rush out to change Jiao Niang back with Xin An. But he ran to the courtyard gate and found that the courtyard gate was locked from the outside by Jiao Niang!
Xin Ping can go out over the wall, but Xin An is too small to be taken care of. It was too dangerous to take Xin An over the wall, and Xin Ping had no choice but to hold Xin An in the house in a hurry.
At the foot of Panlong Mountain, eighty young adults stood at the foot of the mountain and waited to enter the mountain. Among them, the most conspicuous are Lin Qi and Xin Jianniang.
"Well, I said. Why didn't Xin Ping call you a little girl? Fishing in troubled waters? Lin Jie looked at the little girl carved in pink and felt that she was here to gangster, and when they came down the mountain, they would divide the prey.
Jiao Niang glanced at Lin Jie: "My eldest brother is unwell, so I came here for him." If you have an opinion, then our family will not participate, and your prey will not be done, right? After saying that, Jiao Niang turned around and was about to leave.
"Don't go, Sister Jiao is here. Come with me! Lin Qi looked like a gentle big sister and took Jiao Niang's hand.
"......" Jiao Niang silently broke free of Lin Qi's hand, Lin Qi smiled, thinking that Jiao Niang was just a child's temper.
In fact, Jiao Niang was silently complaining in her heart: "I don't want to die with you!" ”
In the end, Li Zheng decided to draw lots to group groups, a group of five people, and those who drew the same lot were grouped into a group. Jiao Niang drew a group with Zhu Dalin, Zhou Ji, Yang Zhuangzhuang, and Ma Fu.
Yang Zhuangzhuang wailed: "My God, two of the five people are waste." It's killing me! ”
Ma Fu muttered dissatisfiedly: "Who do you say is a waste, I'll tell my mother when I go back and let her smoke you." ”
"Before your mother smoked me, I can smoke you now. Believe it or not? Yang Zhuangzhuang viciously threatened Ma Fudao. The frightened Ma Fu hurriedly retreated and stayed away from Yang Zhuangzhuang.
Here, Zhu Dalin smiled at Jiao Niang in a friendly manner: "Jiao Niang girl, you will follow me in a while." ”
"Thank you, Brother Zhu!" After all, he is the brother next door who has played since he was a child, and Jiao Niang is still very relieved of Zhu Dalin.